The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) together with Association Prévention Routière and the French Road Safety Department at the Ministry of Interior organise a PIN Talk to discuss road safet...
To mark the start of the new H2020 project GECKO, dealing with the regulation and governance of disruptive mobility services, a launch event will take place on 10 December from 15.00hrs at the Hilton...
ERTRAC, EGVIA and the European Commission's Transport R&I Directorate are jointly organising #H2020RTR18, the 2nd EGVIA-ERTRAC European Conference. The event showcases road transport research results...
GO MOBILITY is the sustainable mobility industry's meeting point for the principal public and private players in Southern Europe, where the needs and challenges of sustainable mobility are resolved ba...
The Ecovation 2018 conference deals with sustainability and innovation in public procurement. It will demonstrate synergies between the two thematic areas both at European level and in the Member Stat...
Urban Transitions 2018 aims to promote healthy urban development by bringing together different disciplines working within cities. Meet world leading experts on urban and transport planning, architect...
The Polis Conference is Polis’ flagship annual event. Polis president Manchester will host this year’s event, which will take place at the iconic Old Trafford Stadium on 22-23 November. The title...
The Polis Working Group on road safety and the International Transport Forum's Safer City Street initiative organise their third joint workshop on 20-21 November 2018. The meeting is organised back to...
Urban and intercity transport service providers are facing an unprecedented paradigm shift in the legal, business, social and technological norms guiding their industry, leading to a greater emphasis...
Polis is pleased to be associated with the 2018 forum of the European ITS Platform, an ITS platform for national road authorities and stakeholders. Polis will be represented at the forum by the pro...
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is hosting the first Bike City Forum. The event will bring together leading bike and mobility experts, as well as UCI partners, in a drive to further develop cyclin...
The goal of the webinar is to introduce Intelligent Speed Adaptation, ISA, to those who are responsible for procurement in public transport and to explain what ISA can do to increase safety in cities...
The Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) is the international conference on smart cities and urban solutions. The 2018 edition will gather over 400 spearkers and thinkers from fields that range fr...
The Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme is hosting the event "Active mobility - Making the change towards a green and healthy urban transport environment" in Rimini, Italy on Frid...
The Intelligent Transport Conference 2018 investigates how technology will shape the future of transport; improve air quality, operations, improve performance and the customer experience. Polis member...
The MAVEN project ran a workshop in Greenwich (London) on 24 October about how increasing vehicle automation may affect urban traffic management. It followed two similar workshops held in Brussels in...
The Urban Mobility Summit is AUTONOMY’s flagship event where innovators, cities and urbanites gather annually to build a new mobility landscape. The first two days -18 and 19 Ocotber- are dedicated...
Two European INTERREG projects CleanMobilEnergyand SEEV4-City organised a joint workshop "Electromobility in practice – solutions, experiences & lessons learnt" in Paris on 17 October 2018....
Three H2020 funded reserach projects on road safety organise a joint final event back to back to the International Cycling Safety Conference (10-11 October in Barcelona)....
NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transport Activities Research) is organizing a meeting in Molde (Norway) on the 11th and 12th of October 2018, entitled E-groceries, digitalization and...
The International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) is a forum for researchers and experts in the field of cycling safety. Polis member Barcelona City Council contributes a key note speech....
Polis members are invited to join this seminar on 10 October, 10-14h. Organised by BrabantStad it focuses on serious deployment of Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Smart City....
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and pro...
European Green Capital City of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability will host the 10th edition of the EcoProcura Conference on Sustainable, Circular and Innovativ...
International Healthy Cities Conference 2018 "Changing Cities to Change the World". Celebrating Thirty Years of the Healthy Cities Movement, on 1-4 October 2018 in Belfast....
In just three years, Nordic Edge has become the largest Smart City event in the Nordics. Polis will be supporting the 2018 edition through a dedicated session related to the specific transport challen...
The European Cycling Summit 2018 is a great opportunity to explore Austria’s cycling capital Salzburg and to connect with national and international cycling enthusiasts. Join the event and benefit f...
The aim of this workshop was to discuss strategies and needs of cities and operators for upscaling electric full-size commercial fleets and fast charging infrastructure, with a focus on urban freight...
This year’s CIVITAS Forum Conference will take place from 19-21 September in Umeå, Sweden. The 16th edition of Europe’s premier sustainable mobility event will bring together the CIVITAS communit...
The European Day Without a Road Death (Project EDWARD) 2018 takes place on Wednesday 19 September and is organised by TISPOL, the network of European traffic police forces. https://projectedward.eu/...
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Accessibility Statement
www.polisnetwork.eu
12/12/2024
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience,
regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level.
These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible
to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific
disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML,
adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with
screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive
a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website.
In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag
for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology.
To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on
as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over seven different coloring options.
Animations – person with epilepsy can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to